Principal's Daily

Mass tomorrow at 8:00am followed by Town Hall and Super Kids(Please get names to Cris)

Minimum Day tomorrow with staff meeting at 12:30 and PD following.

Here’s Part III from the article entitled “Globally Ready” by Marc Tucker in Educational Leadership, December 2016/January 2017 where he shares what the “global ready” graduate must do:

• Develop ethics. Beyond academic and technical skills, students need to build “a full range of qualities, many of which are related to character,” says Tucker. “Schools should create experiences for students in and out of school that will enable them to develop the full range of habits, values, ethnical commitments, skills, and knowledge they need.” In the schools of the future, he says, sports teams will be no less important than math classes, a week on a wild river with ten classmates no less important than literature, and apprenticing in a manufacturing facility no less important than AP physics. And a faculty member will “be responsible for the development of each student in a process owned by the entire faculty.” Students need to be able to do the right thing when no one is watching, be strong contributors to a team, and experience leadership first hand. These used to be the skills for the elite, says Tucker. “But now, given the skills we need, we must treat all students as elites.”
• Cultural competence. Does this include being fluent in foreign languages? Tucker thinks not. “[A] large portion of the world’s professionals now speak English,” he says. “More to the point, you may work for an employer who assigns you to work in another country. However, you have no way of knowing which country that will be when you’re in school, and the likelihood that the language you choose to study will be the language you need is small indeed. You’ll usually find that your employer will be more than willing to pay for you to learn the language you’ll need.” What’s far more important, he believes, is that Americans understand the perspectives of different people. “Whether our future graduates will be selling to people in other countries, buying from them, building teams with them, or simply voting on issues that arise from our conflicts and alliances with other countries, it’s essential that we Americans know much more than we currently do about people whose cultures are different from our own.”

Observations regarding I Can statements: please be sure to post them where the kids can see and remember to take the time to review them with your kids. The visual is key as well as the brief review focusing on what the kids “can do” as a result of the lesson. Thanks and God Bless.